Baldwin’s salvation is inclusive love untouched by creed or circumstance.

Evidence

There is absolutely no salvation without love: this is the wheel in the middle of the wheel. Salvation does not divide. Salvation connects…It is not the exclusive property of any dogma, creed, or church. It keeps the channel open between oneself and however one wishes to name That which is greater than oneself. It has nothing to do with one’s fortunes or one’s circumstances in one’s passage through this world. It is a mighty fortress, even in the teeth of ruin or at the gates of death. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 606

Categorization

• XREF: This universalist salvation connects to the reader’s interest in how late Baldwin replaces renunciation with community — parallels The Namesake’s rendering of love as cross-generational belonging.